Chapter 86 Self-righteousness
Listening to his friends' words, Lu Shaoyan, who had just put away his golf club, turned around and saw Xu Youyou's familiar face. Since Lu Jingyao was involved, he didn't dare to do anything bad behind her back, so he said directly: "She was brought by my fifth cousin."
Everyone present knew who Lu Shaoyan's fifth cousin was, so they immediately stopped thinking about it.
"What a pity. But it's no wonder that your fifth cousin would be attracted to such a beautiful girl." The man who said at the beginning that he wanted to pursue Xu Youyou could only look at Xu Youyou's back reluctantly several times.
Lu Shaoyan thought that Xu Youyou was not only beautiful, but also a rose with thorns, whoever touched it would be pricked.
The other playboy had no other thoughts about Xu Youyou. He was just curious about what she was going to do: "Shao Yan, what good things did you hide at the end of the corridor? Why did she run there?"
Lu Shaoyan shook his head: "That's a utility room. There are only tools and trash cans in there. What good things can there be? Forget about her. Let's play by ourselves."
Lu Shaoyan thought Xu Youyou was lost. He even hoped that Xu Youyou would wander around here for a while and finally rush into the trash can, so that he could get revenge for the stone being stolen.
Xu Youyou walked smoothly all the way to the innermost storage room of the Lu family villa.
She stood in a utility room filled with sweeping tools, her eyes fixed on the large trash can in the middle of the room.
There was only one large item in the trash can at this time, which was a dirty carpet.
"Sir, are you lost?"
When Xu Youyou heard the question, she turned around and saw a middle-aged woman wearing the Lu family's light blue servant's uniform.
Liu Cuiyun had worked as a maid in the Lu family for several years. Just now, someone had soiled the floor in the billiard room, so she ran to clean it up. Unexpectedly, when she came back, she saw Xu Youyou, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, standing on tiptoe to look into the trash can with her head almost buried in it.
She has always been in charge of cleaning the western leisure area. The carpet in the trash can was supposed to be thrown away early in the morning, but she was busy today and has not thrown it away until now.
Xu Youyou was not panicked at all when she was seen. Instead, she asked calmly, "Don't you want this carpet anymore?"
Liu Cuiyun nodded hesitantly.
Xu Youyou said: "I want it. Ten thousand yuan. Will you sell it?"
Liu Cuiyun did not expect such a pleasant surprise. This carpet had been placed under the mahjong machine in the chess and card room. The late Mrs. Lu loved playing mahjong. This carpet was said to often bring her good luck and help her win money. For so many years, the servants were not allowed to touch or clean it, for fear of ruining her good luck in playing cards.
I don't know what happened late last night, but this carpet caught the eye of Mr. Lu, and he insisted that people throw it away. It seemed that Mr. Lu would get angry whenever he thought about the existence of this carpet.
According to the rules of the Lu family, they don’t care how the servants deal with the things the master throws into the trash can, as long as they don’t remain in the Lu residence.
So, at this moment, the carpet belongs to Liu Cuiyun.
"Just go out and find a car with the license plate number ZA888. Tell the driver that this is the one I want and put it in the trunk." Xu Youyou said.
When Xu Youyou returned to the banquet hall, Lu Jingyao seemed to have completed the contact with the important person.
"You are very happy." Lu Jingyao said.
Xu Youyou was puzzled: "Is my performance obvious?"
Lu Jingyao shook his head. Xu Youyou's performance was not very obvious, but Lu Jingyao had been observing her carefully, and only then did he discover her subtle changes.
Xu Youyou said: "I just thought of something happy."
This time, the treasure was picked up from the Lu family's trash can. It is not clear how valuable it is, but Xu Youyou is particularly happy as long as she can see Lu Shaoyan, one of her enemies in the previous life, earn less money.
Mrs. Gu changed into a spare dress and returned to the banquet hall accompanied by her daughter. She felt extremely uncomfortable wearing the spare dress.
When she saw Xu Youyou and Lu Jingyao staying together from afar, Mrs. Gu felt even more uncomfortable.
She almost thought she had seen it wrong, and couldn't help but grab the arm of her adopted daughter, asking, "How did Xu Youyou hook up with Lu Jingyao? Look at her, she's so close to him, she's almost throwing herself into his arms, how can she be so shameless!"
Gu Xueying also found this scene particularly annoying. She lowered her head, concealing the fact that she had seen the two of them chatting happily at the auction venue before, and said, "Sister is beautiful, it's normal for Mr. Lu to like her."
Madam Gu frowned and said, "My bones are weak when I see a man. How frivolous!"
Gu Xueying said worriedly, "We still don't know how my sister got in. Could it be that some young master brought her in? If the person who brought her in saw the two of them being so intimate, would there be a fight? What if my sister asks mom for help, should we help her?"
The first thing Mrs. Gu thought of was to distance herself from the matter. She immediately said, "Doesn't Xu Youyou always say that she is an orphan? If a fight really breaks out, I won't care about her!"
However, Gu Jianming appeared next to his wife and daughter at some point. He also saw Xu Youyou, but his thoughts were different.
"Lu Jingyao seems to like her very much. We must recognize this marriage." Gu Jianming said firmly.
Madam Gu was immediately anxious when she heard this: "She doesn't want to recognize us, so I don't want to be rejected by her!"
Gu Jianming still had a gentle smile on his face, but his expression did not allow for rejection: "She is the daughter of the Gu family, and Fengchuan is also waiting for her to save his life. Even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected. You should persuade her well. If she is willing to return to the Gu family as an adopted daughter, I will not treat her unfairly."
Gu Jianming originally thought that Xu Youyou, his daughter who was living outside, was dispensable, but after seeing Lu Jingyao, he felt that his daughter finally had some value.
In Gu Jianming's opinion, the idea of adopting a daughter is a two-pronged approach. If Xu Youyou really relies on Lu Jingyao, even if she is not his wife but just a lover, the investment will be worth it.
Of course, if Xu Youyou was abandoned by Lu Jingyao, her identity as an adopted daughter would allow the Gu family to draw a clear line between themselves and Xu Youyou in the shortest possible time.
Madam Gu said, "They are just playing around. If Lu Jingyao really wants to like someone, he should like Yingying, a well-educated and well-mannered daughter of a wealthy family."
Gu Jianming glanced at his adopted daughter and said, "Yingying has Yingying's blessings, and Xu Youyou also has her luck. Having more daughters is not a bad thing."
Gu Xueying was biting her lower lip at this time. She looked at the backs of Xu Youyou and Lu Jingyao with almost jealousy as they talked happily.
Lu Jingyao was young, handsome and extremely wealthy, and was a top marriage candidate in the wealthy circle. Gu Xueying had also participated in the Lu family's camellia party, but no matter how hard she tried to please Mrs. Lu, she had never gotten the chance to have a formal blind date with Lu Jingyao.
She whispered at this time: "Dad, my sister said that she would only be willing to have a bone marrow match with my eldest brother if she wanted all our family property."
When Gu Jianming heard this, he frowned and cursed in a low voice: "Asshole!"
Gu Xueying deliberately said: "Dad, my sister is so hostile to our family. If all the family assets are given to her, maybe she will be willing to help the family. Otherwise, you can give her a part of the assets first?"
Gu Jianming was not even completely confident in his eldest son Gu Fengchuan, whom he regarded as his heir, so how could he possibly hand over the family's huge assets to a daughter with whom he had never lived?
"You can't write two words for Gu with one stroke. She is angry with us now. As long as we coax her well, I don't believe she will go against her biological parents."
In fact, Gu Jianming was very dissatisfied with his wife.
He felt that recognizing one's relatives was just a trivial matter, but even in such a trivial matter, neither Gu Fengchuan nor Mrs. Gu did a good job.
Madam Gu said helplessly: "If she was really so easy to talk to, I wouldn't be in such a mess now."
Gu Xueying didn't say anything. She hadn't seen Xu Youyou's bottom line yet and didn't know what this man was going to do.
However, Gu Jianming was still so self-righteous. He ignored his wife and daughter and walked towards Lu Jingyao and Xu Youyou instead.
Gu Xueying felt that her father might run into a wall, but in order to avoid being angered, she didn't dare to say anything.
Gu Jianming approached the two of them openly, raised his glass and said, "Mr. Lu, I want to thank you for taking care of my daughter."
(End of this chapter)
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